[lbo-talk] Bush Hints That U.S. Might Not Reduce Troops in Iraq

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 20 15:11:54 PST 2003



>
> The scenario of turning Iraq into three
> "Afghanistans" is probably
> the only one that would allow Bush to scale back the
> Iraqi operation
> and diminish reports of US casualties quickly, as
> Max Sawicky and
> Martin van Creveld suggest. The scenario is not a
> very attractive
> one for Bush, however, as the Arab masses would
> definitely interpret
> any scaling back of the US occupation as a US
> defeat.
>
> Yoshie
>

But of course, they don't really care what the Arab masses think. Their only concern is what the U.S. public and the U.S. media think. Both are easily bamboozled.

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